Robot dogs dream of consciousness

A convincing artificially intelligent dog might sniff, bark, and roll around—but before we build a successful K-9, we might need to re-evaluate intention and volition as properties of the human mind. And to fathom those we probably need to better understand our dreams. We present two thinkers coming at the consciousness question in their own unique way.

Graham :

17 Dec 2017 7:52:41pm

Interesting programme Joe., but I have a very different view on AI. Perhaps you may like to read an article, "Real AI? Don't be fooled" which was published recently on On Line Opinion: http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=19467&page=1Graham Preston

A McIntosh :

Gederts :

Essentially a program about definitions.You could talk for hours about 'consciousness', especially if no-one has it clear what that means. Same goes for ''purposeful' and 'volitional'.

A squirrel with the purpose of storing nuts for winter and an emperor planning the next campaign is simply a matter of degree, simple scale, with the objective according to the nature of both creatures. The human brain is very complex. You could examine different degrees of brain-damage from trauma to see at what level 'volition' fades or 'consciousness' disappears. Depends on the number of synapses.

So build highly complex computers. The unpredictable behavior, the 'self-organized criticality in complex dynamic systems' as seen in sand-piles or between individual humans could be seen in robots.Not a particularly interesting topic.